How you can get infected by just being connected to the internet on older OS like Vista?

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[This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w) connects to the web on an xp version that is being runned on vm. How can they get so much access to the computer, why didn’t this happened so eassily back in the day, and why newer os are less likely to run into those problems?

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When an OS is out of support, when a vulnerability is found, it’s not fixed. Those vulnerabilities probably exist in newer operating system, but no one has found them and if they are found they will be fixed.

A zero day vulnerability can sell for millions because they are so hard to find. If you find one and know where to look, you can sell the knowledge. Just to give you an idea of how hard they are to find. So an older OS, in addition to being out of support, also has had more time to find these issues.

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